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Linux-Announce Digest #174
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Wed Aug 21 13:13:08 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #174, Volume #4 Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
ANN: The ELJ Project announces the release of ELJ 0.3; Open source Projects and API Bindings for Eiffel (GNU Eiffel press agent)
NYLXS Summer Party Bash (Ruben Safir)
FWD: Eric Raymond Speaks on Open Source - Weds. Aug. 21, 2002 ("Casandra's Calendar")
Wyoming Linux User Group (Kevin Mihelich)
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From: gnu_eiffel_announce@yahoo.com (GNU Eiffel press agent)
Subject: ANN: The ELJ Project announces the release of ELJ 0.3; Open source Projects and API Bindings for Eiffel
Date: 20 Aug 2002 16:35:32 GMT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: geoff@elj.com
THE ELJ PROJECT ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF ELJ 0.3, OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
AND LIBRARY BINDINGS FOR EIFFEL
Australia -- <<today's date>> The ELJ Project is pleased to announce
the release of version 0.3.
The ELJ Project has been making rapid progress in developing new
library bindings and applications in the last few months. In fact,
even though it's only been a few weeks since the 0.2 release, enough
has changed to justify a 0.3 release.
Among the recent changes:
* All standard wxWindows dialogs have been implemented, along with
IPC classes.
* Device context related classes are now available.
* Support for the SQLite RDBMS engine.
* The addition of the Perlish library.
* Improved examples, and more of them.
The Perlish library adds Perl-like functionality to the Eiffel
language. It includes analogs to some common Perl operators like <>
and $_ as well as globbing, simple report formatting, and the ability
to spawn child processes with redirected I/O between parent and child.
The ELJ Project supports several applications, relational databases,
native libraries and bindings to popular APIs.
Applications :
* ELJ GIRLS -- a CRM, especially for Software companies, based on
wxWindows and Firebird.
* SeBench -- an IDE for SmallEiffel.
* XmlViewer -- based on ELJ and Gobo
* PVSW -- a management tool for a Pervasive database
* Numerous examples for the wxWindows and database bindings.
Native Libraries:
* ePCRE -- an Eiffel port of PCRE, the Perl Regular Expression
engine.
* Perlish -- a library that provides some Perl functionality to
Eiffel programs
Database Support:
* Firebird
* Berkely DB (SleepyCat)
* MySQL
* PostgreSQL
* Btrieve (Pervasive SQL2000)
* SQLite
GUI/OS Support:
* Win32 API
* wxWindows
* OpenGL (proof of concept only)
* Gtk
For more information about the ELJ project, visit:
http://elj.sourceforge.net
For more information about the SmallEiffel compiler, visit:
http://smalleiffel.loria.fr
For more information on the Gobo project, visit:
http://www.gobosoft.com
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From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
Subject: NYLXS Summer Party Bash
Date: 20 Aug 2002 16:35:36 GMT
NYLXS is having a Summer Blast-off on Saturday Night at 6PM, August 24th, 2002
We are taking a wonderful Cruise on the USS Royal Sunshine Pier 2 Sheepshead
Bay Brooklyn USA
Cost for the Cruise is $15 and we sail into Manhattan to Music and Drink.
This is a double decker boat, not a standard fishing vessel, women and children
friendly. Everyone has a good time.
We will meet at 6PM at Captain Walters, at 3033 Emmons Ave Brooklyn, on the
Corner of Emmons and Ocean AVENUE (not Parkway)
It's a great Brooklyn Watering Hole for generations of my fellow countrymen. At
6:45 we will move to the boat.
The Cruise ends at 10:30, when we can continue, if we choose to, with an
evening of Dance and Music at one of the local clubs along the waterway.
Sheepshead Bay is one of the great Night spots of NYC, and everyone will love
it.
NYLXS is the local Free Software Advocacy Groups pro-activily sponsoring Free
Software Education and usage in the NYC area. See http://www.nylxs.com
A $10 contribution to NYLXS will be asked for. We are raffling off 1 year of
free education to any NYLXS program for a $40 Raffle Ticket.
We will be bringing Beer and Wine, and whatever else is going to go to the Free
Software Institute to help continue our very low cost education program.
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From: "Casandra's Calendar" <casandrascalendar@yahoo.com>
Subject: FWD: Eric Raymond Speaks on Open Source - Weds. Aug. 21, 2002
Date: 20 Aug 2002 16:35:39 GMT
NYPC - NY PC Users Group - http://www.nypc.org
NYPC & The New School Invite You
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Eric Raymond on Open Source
Doors open 6:00 pm
General PC Q&A 6:30 - 7:30
Presentation 7:30 - 9:30
Tishman Auditorium
The New School 66 West 12th Street
***** Free and open to the public, no RSVP required *******
Eric's book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar is in its second
printing.
He has written the popular Unix fetchmail utility and books
and papers on everything from Linux editors to economics.
He is the president and chief evangelist of the Open Source
Initiative.
Eric Raymond's web site: http://tuxedo.org/~esr
Eric Raymond is a hacker, in the original sense of the word.
He's written the popular Unix fetchmail utility and books and
papers on everything from Linux editors to economics, and
he's the president (and chief evangelist) of
the Open Source Initiative. He also plays a mean flute.
Eric is also the unofficial historian of the hacker movement.
I'm not talking about crackers, people who break into computer
systems, destroy web sites, etc. I'm talking about hackers,
the people who invented Unix and started the personal computer
industry, and who today write the code that keeps most of our
world running. Eric's book, "The New Hackers Dictionary"
is based on a public file on the Internet, which was started as
a dictionary of terms for programmers. It shows the meanings
of words like "hacker" as they were originally defined.
Eric is one of the world's foremost Linux proponents, open
source proponents, and Unix gurus, and is a really nice guy.
He's given presentations on Open Source, Linux, Unix, politics,
economics, the Internet, and the history of hacking.
One thing I can promise you: he's never dull.
Benefits of Open Source
Eric's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" began life as an
essay examining the economic benefits of open-source software
to the business community. The Open Source Initiative's goals
(simplified) are the distribution of software with its
original source code (programming language), and the ability
to examine, change, and distribute that program to anyone else.
Now in its second printing, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
dramatically changed the way the business world looked at
open-source software in general and Linux in particular.
It also convinced Netscape to release the source code for their
Navigator web browser, making it one of the first well-known
open-source products. Netscape explicitly mentioned "The Cathedral
and the Bazaar" as its influence in releasing the Navigator
source code.
The Linux operating system is one of the best-known open-source
programs, but there are many others. The political, business,
and economic ramifications of open-source software have kept
closed-source vendors busy downplaying its effects.
Various internal and external corporate documents have outlined
their serious concerns about the open-source movement in general
and Linux in particular. Obviously, Eric and the open-source
movement may be onto something.
--- write-up by Lee Thalblum
NYPC - NY PC Users Group - http://www.nypc.org
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Casandra's Calendar - Linux and Gnu events NYC/tri-state area
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/calendar.html
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Directory of local groups:
http://www.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/lugdetails.html
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:35:58 CST
From: Kevin Mihelich <krolnet@sisna.com>
Subject: Wyoming Linux User Group
I am in the process of founding a LUG, as I have looked and not been
able to find any groups in the Cheyenne, Wyoming area. If anyone is
interested in being a member, or if perhaps I have missed the existance
of a local group, feel free to contact me.
--
Kevin Mihelich
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